NY Times Best-Selling Author Cory Doctorow to Keynote 2018 Forum

The Security of Things™ Forum is pleased to announce that technology activist, journalist and New York Times best-selling author Cory Doctorow will keynote the 2018 Security of Things Forum in Boston on June 19th.

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of fiction and non-fiction novels.

Doctorow is one of the brightest thinkers on issues related to technology, security, privacy and civil liberties: issues he has tackled in his writing, from his New York Times Bestseller LITTLE BROTHER, to 2014’s INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE, a book about creativity in the Internet age. His latest young adult novel is HOMELAND, the bestselling sequel to 2008’s LITTLE BROTHER.

“I’m excited to be able to address an audience of practitioners, experts and entrepreneurs: as we subsume computers into our lives in ever-more-intimate ways, on our bodies, around our bodies, even *in* our bodies, understanding the ways that our designs can thoughtlessly enable crimes, harassment and even dictatorship is key to averting a future none of us want to see,” Doctorow said.

“The events of recent months have underscored the degree to which technology cannot be held apart from issues like morality and ethics, as well as societal values such as privacy, intellectual freedom and freedom of expression. Cory is one of the smartest and most influential voices of reason on these issues,” said Paul Roberts, the Founder of The Security of Things Forum. “We’re thrilled to have him as the keynote speaker for our 2018 event!”

When he is not writing, Doctorow is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), the non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He holds an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University (UK), where he is a Visiting Professor; he is also a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate. In 2007, Cory served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

Cory’s novels have been translated into dozens of languages. He is the recipient of the Locus, Prometheus, Copper Cylinder, White Pine and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. Cory co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, and serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the Clarion Foundation, the Open Technology Fund and the Metabrainz Foundation.

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